#Admiral hornblower

[aye-aye-captain]

Sir Edward Pellew in his dashing uniform | Hornblower (Retribution)

#edward pellew #hornblower #robert lindsay #hornblower series #captain pellew #sir edward pellew #admiral edward pellew #hornblower: retribution #age of sail #perioddrama #periodedit #perioddramasource #naval officer #age of sail media #naval history #aye-aye-captain gifs

[hornblower-diary]

I am reading a biography about Edward Pellew (Commander by Stephen Taylor) and what can I say: He's was so amazing!

#edward pellew #admiral edward pellew #captain #naval officer #royal navy #robert lindsay #hornblower #hornblower series #biography #history

[thrawns-backrest]

CRYING SCREAMING THROWING UP

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT WHERE MY RONAN INSPIRATION IS COMING FROM

God when I tell you, when I tell you, this has been bugging me for days. I just knew I was getting very specific vibes for him and his design but I just couldn't figure out where they were coming from.

AND NOW I KNOW

IT'S HIM

IT'S THIS MF

I swear, every time I thought Ronan I could just feel that napoleonic flair in him. The uniform, the dramatics, the pompousness?? Hello???

At first I thought it's bc I'm partly modelling him after another administrator type napoleonic OC of mine but then it hit me: It's BUSH. That's where the vibes are coming from!!

I mean slightly posh and uppity, strict, mostly grumpy, loves throwing his rank around, looks older than he is. y'all it's just a less prickly slash comedic slash dramatic version of Bush (of course Bush is also more bamf but still, the vibes)

fricking impeccable

BUT WAIT! It doesn't end there! Because what's Bush without Hornblower and what's Hornblower if not ELI EFFING VANTO

math nerd with friendly puppy vibes but also scary smart and competent?? it's even weirder because he's got Thrawn vibes as well??? the navy officer with the crazy brilliant plans who exasperates his superiors and has zero social and political awareness??

my stupid navy son, how is he both of them at the same time 😭😭

and then of course I had to realize. I've been obsessed with Ba'kif. the strict but secretly soft, tired parent admiral who needs to look out for his genius prodigy and get him out of his messes while growing increasingly fond of him and is always willing to go with his plans

Y'ALL IT'S PELLEW

IT'S LITERALLY PELLEW WTF

like tell me this isn't the face Ba'kif would make if someone ever told Thrawn he should be in politics

and finally

reluctant respect and subsequent friendship is what we deserve for Eli and Ronan. I am unwell, this is just too perfect-

#backrest's ronanposting #if anyone has no idea what I'm going on about here #please just please watch Hornblower #the first episode is a bit rough but the character dynamics are so ZAHN #there's also naval battles admirals and strategies #and some banter and comedy in between #it's perfect

[sanguinarysanguinity]

“I can only tell your lordship the facts as disclosed to me. She is under charter to a French general, Count Cambronne.” “Cambronne? Cambronne? The man who commanded the Imperial Guard at Waterloo?” “That’s the man, my lord.” “The man who said, ‘The Old Guard dies, but does not surrender’?” “Yes, my lord, although report says he actually used a ruder expression.”

C.S. Forester, Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

Today’s Les Mis has a tie-in to the Hornblower novels!

#pierre cambronne #les mis daily #les mis letters #c.s. forester #admiral hornblower in the west indies #I wrote a whole novel-length fic going AU from this Hornblower story #imagine my surprise reading Les Mis #Cambronne? Cambronne? THAT Count Cambronne?? #les mis #les miserables

[ilovefredjones]

there seems to be an unused ration of… water? yes.

martin crimp, cyrano de bergerac / raoul walsh, captain horatio hornblower

#i heard ‘hornblower? he ain’t human’ and blacked out for the rest of the film #watched chh last night bc a) he was inspiration of jim kirk’s character and b) hornblower is played by ethan peck’s grandfather #so a very full circle moment #and. gah this scene this SCENEEEE #the dehumanisation of authority figures the same way jim is constantly being compared to caesar #their struggles never being visible bc they have to be strong for their crew #and thus almost becoming godlike and infallible #HE AINT HUMAN???????????????????? #and god don’t even get me started on the cyrano extract #how he saves his water for CHRISTIAN?????? the woman he loves’ husband????? oh im evil #he values christian’s life more than his own bc ROXANE values christian more!!!!!!! AAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHH #and how much HIS men respect and admire him even tho he isn’t a general or anything he’s just an ordinary solider #and how the rest of the men and even cyrano himself almost start to believe he’s untouchable #he takes the flack and he’d go to hell and back and thus he’s lifted into this high position #when in reality it’s like. because he hates himself. and his sword and his words are all he has #and if that kills him then it kills him #and it DOES kill him!!!!!!! he walks out of hospital to confess to roxane and he dies and aaaaggggghhghh #normal normal i’m normal #god why can’t i have normal interests like everybody else #no one else is like ‘omg the parallels between this 1951 film and an adaptation of an 18th century french play’ #and how they relate to captain kirk from star trek #what is WRONGGGGGG WITH ME WHAT IS MY PROBLEM #god. anyway #jesus christ jemima. have you ever tried to like things a normal amount #anyway. i’m finished now i think #how tf do i even tag this #cyrano de bergerac #captain horatio hornblower

[lost-victorian-sailor]

guYS HAVE YOU SEEN LORD COCHRANE???? HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?? I MEAN LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIS SEXY POSING. LOOK AT HIS FLAWLESS OUTFIT. JUST. LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIS BEAUTIFUL RED HAIR. AAAA!!! AND THIS MAN WAS AN INSPIRATION FOR C.S. FORESTER WHEN HE CREATED HORNBLOWER....

I JUST CAN'T....

LOOK AT HIM!!!

when i see a pretty naval officer, i can't resist....

#horatio hornblower #hornblower #lord Cochrane #admiral Cochrane #naval history #or better #naval fangirling #bernie's simping over dead british men

[handfuloftime]

C.S. Forester, Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

#thinking about el's post from a while back about people having to surrender their swords #this isn't quite that but it's still Very Good #(for context cambronne has just been told of napoleon's death) #horatio hornblower #admiral hornblower in the west indies

[chiropteracupola]

(Made up fic title game) "Live Like An Animal" and/or "It Shall Not Come To Pass"

(these notes are translated from my original, rather frantic ones scribbled out at 2am ...so do take the ideas themselves in that context as well)

live like an animal

hm, I think I'll go a little bit against the grain and imagine a hornblower one here? I think I'd like to see him truly snap more, just absolutely go off the rails, and this seems like the sort of title to imply such a story behind it.

now, I've seen stuff slightly of this nature done before, but I think I'd like to go in a different direction, if only because Creatures and Poeticisms are much more in my wheelhouse in a way that the logistical issues of a naval officer suddenly going rogue are not.

lack of control would have to be at the heart here -- some situation where he's trapped just far enough outside of his usual discomfort zone (it's hornblower after all, I really can't call it a comfort zone...) that his usual systems of operation can't carry him. so I'm thinking this is late-series, when he's already struggling under the weight of many an issue as it is.

whether it's rage or grief or even a major injury that forces him into this situation, it's something he's continuing to struggle with even as he has to navigate polite society on land, perhaps having to hid this sort of werewolfery of emotion from Bush and/or Barbara even as his internal structures start to crumble. maybe he's trying to adapt to a new role of some kind, and is trying as best he can to make all the constructions in his head serve him again even as he starts to realize they're built on a foundation of sand.

now, I can't quite figure out just yet precisely whether that werewolfery is a literal one or not, but either way this one is imagery-heavy, putting as much weight to the meat of the transformation and the feeling, perhaps, of being trapped in a body you're becoming less and less suited to as much as to his emotional struggles here. big claws, big teeth, spilt blood, hot breath, the works. decorous decorated war hero by day, rampaging shambling thing by night.

it shall not come to pass

well, that sounds like some kind of foretelling, so we're talking fates and prophecies and such, so this sounds like a good fit for something flight of the heron!

now, I'm not as up on my folklore as I used to be, and unfortunately, most of the knowledge that I've picked up on divination stuff that might match to that area and time period is pretty much all related to foretelling the identity of one's future husband. (although. I'm sure there is a different fic to be had in that idea. hm hm there's an idea to be played with at some other time.)

this is completely conjecture about how this might actually work, but I think someone who's the son of a seer and, out of all the characters, seems to know his way the best around the superstitious side of things, might go about trying to break a prophecy at the root, if he was given a situation where he had enough time to do so.

now, I've got no idea so far exactly how Lachlan goes about doing that, or how much success it'd be possible to have with such a goal, but one thing I'm sure of -- meddling with fate in such a way is almost certain to come with a body count.

#answers from the cupola #I need a casual hornblower tag #heronposting #I'll admit my first instinct for the first one was to take it for a fic I'm already writing but That Is Not The Point Here #kiiiiiiiiiiinda want to write at least the first one of these just because I have lots of ideas for Pretty Sentences now #I love using megafauna as an inspiration for werecreatures and I'm envisioning something from that sort of grey area of time #where things kind of blend between hyena and horse in shape... #(also I did initially read the first one as 'admiral' for 'animal' and Oh Boy that would be a Very Different story!)

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

History - Captain Horatio Hornblower

After the victory of a British fleet (commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson) over a French-Spanish fleet (commanded by Pierre de Villeneuve) at Trafalgar, Britain „ruled the waves“ for over a century - and London was the centre of that power. The 12 Hornblower novels from C.S. Forester and the movie „Captain Horatio Hornblower“ describes the seafaring life aboard a warship at those times. For sure one of the triggers to visit London one time to deep dive in those historical times.

Naval Battle Scene 1

Naval Battle Scene 2

Sea battle scenes from the movie „Captain Horatio Hornblower“. The movie scenes show vividly what contributed as well to Nelson's success at Trafalgar: Nelson was able to outmaneuver the superior enemy fleet since the British ship crews were more capable (they were more skilled in the rigging and were able to fire more rounds with their cannons). Nelson's feat was to find a tactic that would best utilize his people's abilities.

-Simplicius Simplicissimus

#traveling #reisen #england #london #movies #filme #captain horation hornblower #des königs admiral #horatio hornblower #horatio nelson #gregory peck #simplicius simplicissimus #history #geschichte #books #bücher #Youtube

[drinkthemlock]

I hate master and commander now because a boy (who to me doesn’t even seem like he likes history very much, just that he desperately wants to fuck russel crowe) who likes it has been antagonizing me over napoleonic history for a few days

#yesterday he was particularly insufferable and now I’m mad #apparently he’s into hornblower too #if hope he finds his truth #if you want to ‘blow’ admiral nelson’s ‘horn’ so bad please keep me out of it

[aye-aye-captain]

"Best of Pellew pouts" | Robert Lindsay as Sir Edward Pellew | Hornblower | Part 1/?

-for anon ♡

#edward pellew #best of Pellew pouts #hornblower #robert lindsay #hornblower series #captain pellew #admiral edward pellew #sir edward pellew #perioddrama #periodedit #perioddramasource #naval officer #age of sail media #age of sail #naval history #aye-aye-captain gifs #these arent all just puts but oh well i love all of his unamused faces hehe

[aragarna]

Requested by @lulu-cat-princess: Ioan Gruffudd as Captain Horatio Hornblower in his wedding uniform (Hornblower, 3x01) - feat. Julia Sawalha as Maria Hornblower, Paul McGann as William Bush and Robert Lindsay as Admiral Edward Pellew

#ioan gruffudd #horatio hornblower #hornblower #paul mcgann #william bush #maria #julia sawalha #robert lindsay #edward pellew #my gifs

[hornblower-diary]

Happy 50th birthday, Ioan Gruffudd 🎊

Now he could play Lord or Admiral Hornblower.

#hornblower #horatio hornblower #ioan gruffudd #royal navy #hornblower series #happy birthday

[captainsvscaptains]

Battle of the Captains

Round 3 Part 6 Poll 2

Propaganda

No propaganda for Tetra yet

Hornblower's the most soggy wet pathetic man I've ever seen <3 He's got 56 mental illnesses and slowly goes from an albeit anxious but excited midshipman to a bitchy admiral

#battle of the captains #tournament polls #round 3 #ww tetra #loz tetra #tetra wind waker #tetra zelda #wind waker tetra #the legend of zelda #loz tag #loz fandom #loz ww #loz wind waker #legend of zelda wind waker #the wind waker #wind waker #hornblower series #horatio hornblower #hornblower

[thatscarletflycatcher]

#polls #period drama #jane austen #elizabeth gaskell #potc #master and commander #horatio hornblower #North and South #Persuasion #Mansfield Park #Cranford

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Friends, enemies, comrades, Jacobins, Monarchist, Bonapartists, gather round. We have an important announcement:

The continent is beset with war. A tenacious general from Corsica has ignited conflict from Madrid to Moscow and made ancient dynasties tremble. Depending on your particular political leanings, this is either the triumph of a great man out of the chaos of The Terror, a betrayal of the values of the French Revolution, or the rule of the greatest upstart tyrant since Caesar.

But, our grand tournament is here to ask the most important question: Now that the flower of European nobility is arrayed on the battlefield in the sexiest uniforms that European history has yet produced (or indeed, may ever produce), who is the most fuckable?

The bracket is here: full bracket and just quadrant I

Want to nominate someone from the Western Hemisphere who was involved in the ever so sexy dismantling of the Spanish empire? (or the Portuguese or French American colonies as well) You can do it here

The People have created this list of nominees:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

17.Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Charles-Pierre Augereau

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)

George Canning

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Ireland:

Arthur O'Connor

Thomas Russell

Robert Emmet

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Ippolit Kuragin (War and Peace)

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Lombardy:

Alessandro Manzoni

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

#napoleonic sexyman tournament #new pinned post for now